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Hi, here is your weekly round-up of highlights from Out-Law News. As always, there are plenty of other stories from this week. You can also access our archive of weekly emails    This week's highlights from Out-Law News TMT & Sourcing and Intellectual Property UK businesses should seek insurance against cyberattacks, says expert  Senior managers in UK business should pay greater attention to the threat of cyber attacks, establish what the cost of such an incident would be to their firms and insure against it, an expert has advised. 06/09/2012 EU regulators dismiss competition concerns over UK mobile wallet joint venture  The European Commission has "unconditionally approved" a joint venture between Telefónica's O2, Vodafone and Orange and T-Mobile-owner Everything Everywhere (EE) that will enable the firms to collaborate on a new mobile payments service. 05/09/2012 UK search engine details 'remedies' it would like Google to adopt to address anti-competitive search practices  Google's spam website rules unfairly impinge on the company's rivals in the vertical search market, a UK search engine has claimed. 05/09/2012 Commission calls for sharing of radio spectrum for delivering mobile and wireless network growth  Mobile operators and other companies that have bought access to radio spectrum that enables them to deliver data traffic over their networks could be provided with incentives to share access to that spectrum under plans unveiled by the European Commission. 05/09/2012 Service provider fined £50,000 for misleading consumers over app charges  A premium rate service (PRS) provider has been fined £50,000 after the industry's regulator ruled that it had charged mobile phone users to download a games application without adequate consent to do so. 04/09/2012 Trade association seeks wide-ranging 30% tax relief for UK video games producers Companies involved in making video games in the UK should receive a tax break worth 30% of what they owe, a trade association has said. 04/09/2012 Financial Services To like or not to like, adviser charging and US clients John Salmon's Financial Services blog: In July Rory Cellan-Jones wrote about his experiment with a Virtual Bagel. These downloadable bagels supported by a Facebook page and an advertising budget of $10 per advert received thousands of 'likes' within days. 06/09/2012 Infrastructure UK construction set for boost from sports infrastructure opportunities in Taipei, says Government  UK companies stand to gain new infrastructure contracts in Taiwan as a result of a new agreement signed between the Government and administrators in the Asian country, the Government has said. 06/09/2012 Scottish infrastructure planning should be blueprint for Northern Ireland, says expert  OPINION: The Northern Ireland Executive should examine Scottish plans for infrastructure development as it considers how best to boost the construction industry and harness the additional economic and employment benefits associated with infrastructure development. 04/09/2012 Pensions Auto-enrolment: firms getting opt-outs wrong, says expert  Companies risk breaking new laws on pensions auto-enrolment because they have failed to comply with an important rule, an expert has warned.  06/09/2012 Construction Advisory and Disputes Construction industry may not fully recover until 2016 at the earliest, expert predicts  The UK's construction industry may not record the same levels of work as it did prior to the economic downturn until at least 2016, a legal expert in the sector has said. 06/09/2012 Environmental and climate change Expert warns over waste laws following crackdown and publication of report  The Environment Agency (EA) in England and Wales closed down 670 illegal waste sites in the year up to the end of March 2012 as part of a crackdown on companies breaking waste laws, the body said in its Waste Crime Report. 06/09/2012 Pinsent Masons: combining the experience, resources and international reach of McGrigors and Pinsent Masons   About this email This is a weekly email for subscribers of Out-Law.com, a website with more than 10,000 pages of legal news and guidance. If and when you need further advice, we hope you'll choose Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind Out-Law.com .   Please forward this email to your friends. If someone forwarded this email to you and you'd like your own subscription, register here